Chaosbutterfly

Well, it was a first time con.  I got there Friday night and had a hard time finding people at all.  Most were people I had met at previous Houston area conventions, the usual suspects so to speak.  The people running the convention are of the mind that they didn’t do their advertising.  I tend to agree that may be part of it, the other part I think that may be a large part of this problem may be attributed to the fact that Owlcon has been scheduled for the week after and most people I know were planning to go to that one. 

I have to admit they had nice t-shirts.  The panel I went to had an audience of at first just two of us.  However, a few other people later showed up and we maybe had 5 in the room.  The whole con was like that on Friday night.

I missed the day portion of Saturday.  We were taking our final exam at the Elissa on Saturday so I had to be there.  I did rather well on the test which was doing great since I had skipped out on the study group the night before.   When I got there, I managed to make the only LARP that happened to make it that weekend.  It was a weird combination of Steampunk, Changling and Furry and me and one of my Amtgard friends managed to pretty much take over in the RP.  I guess that’s what happens when you take a bunch of 20 something LARPers and throw in a couple of 40 something old Amtgard geeks into the mix.  Give us some rather ambiguous rules and loads of magic to play with and we will run amok.  I look back at it and I think that we would have been successful in killing the fairy ice queen if we only thought of taking the statue we had turned her into and thrown it into an iron box so her fay friends wouldn’t have been able to rescue here … then we would have been able to throw her into the sea without too much interference.  Oh well, hind sight is 20/20.

I had planned to be at Stormwall on Sunday, but as luck would have it, power issues returned to the boat.  However, this time, we isolated what was causing it all this time.  It was dirty power.  The power grid at the marina has been pretty spotty since Ike and we discovered when we were fixing my burnt out wires at the inverter that the power input from the marina was only 99 volts instead of 110 and the current was almost non existent.  This is probably why I’ve been having so many problems lately.  Fortunately, the Harbormaster was around to fix the power connection so all is good now.